they said wade mr. allen the chief inspector was to thank you. i'm thinking great. guns and a big iron gate. the chief inspector shows up at the border worm waiting in my motorcycle gear ready to go been they're every day and he says before you go we must have shot. in middle east it's all about having tea. we get together and have a beer or whatever, hear it's let's have shy. he said on other side of this dusty border stop in german outline of the map of syria and on that he pointed out, hear is where you need to go to really experience syria. the people are warm. it is sad that the government, you know it brings tears to my eyes to think about what is going on now. i had such a positive experience in syria. that is where we connected over tea, culture. i had good experiences. i loved -- i embrace south africa in its diversity all over south america, just fantastic people all over the world, fantastic food. beyond border hassles or challenges which i call opportunities anyway we can get through those things. great stuff all over the world. >> did you ever get treat

chairman and the presentation i want to ask you about ab 61 which is a bill by a i guess mr. allen that was basically how private shourlt services like the you know so-called google buses and textbook buses to use basically bus stops the same way that school bus and i'm just very concerned about this bill and one question - well, first of all, i'm wondering what we're doing in terms of of that bill i think it would be important for us to take a position against this bill but one question i have is would this bill actually supersede the pilot that san francisco has? the way i read it it will not it will allow only ann on a volunteer y basis they enter into the agreement so the agency 2, 3, 4 my reading provide that assess they wouldn't be compelled to be >> i would certainly make a motion that we take up a formal position opposing this bill. >> just a followup question would ab 61 is there any language that prevents local control in terms of setting up a fee for using our - >> it's a sketchy bill no restriction on fees or direction as i read it for an imposition of fees i've been in

fort myers police report states "the video evidence clearly indicates mr. allen was not perpetrator of the offense." >> a huge news conference scheduled in fort myers as well today. we'll let you know what is going within with that. >>> why expertscy you should not shop if hungry. >> cheetos make the way into the basket. first, though, coming up tonight on cbs3 >> breaking news this morning an amber alert system activated in-er isp for 3-year-old for newcastle county delaware. authorities believe elinor trotta is in imminent daipinger after her father abducted her from her newcastle county home. two were traveling in gray 199 mazda. green mustang or older red ford explorer. they could be headed to new jersey or new york. if you know about their whereabouts call 911. >> a live look now in center city there's dangerous cold outside now. it will stay below freezing all day. we'll get an update from katie on the 3s in a bit. >> and ramp from route 90 to route 130 pensauken closed now and will reopen later today. tanker truck carrying 8,000 gallons of gas caught fire

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mr. allen: i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker i rise today in strong support of this keystone x.l. pipeline approval act. you know i think on both sides, all we talk about is creating jobs. for six years this project has been studied, we hear that over and over again. you know, every environmental report has been favorable and in fact the president's own state department says that the construction of this pipeline will create tens of thousands of jobs. at a time when millions of americans are struggling, this is a project that's ready to go. as we said, we have pipelines stacked up ready to put in the ground. this keystone pipeline is not just an important -- is not just important to growing our economy, this project is critical to securing north american energy independence and reducing our dependence on foreign oil. congress has taken action with bipartisan so -- support and finally we will put this priority on the president's desk. i urge the president to listen to the american people who support this project and recon

mr. allen: thank you. like i said, this school produces through innovation and teaching techniques, it changes the cycle. what would happen to these children in the public school system under the guidance of the federal government for the last 50 years? aren't they worth saving? parents, teachers, and local education leaders need control over education not the federal government. they are best suited to nurturing students' success in our schools. h.r. 5 does just that. it restores local control. thank you, and i yield back the remainder of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from colorado is recognized. mr. polis: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to yield three minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas, mr. doggett, is recognized for three minutes. mr. doggett: thank you. 50 years ago in the central texas one-room schoolhouse where he had studied president lyndon b. johnson first signed

len len i thank the gentleman from -- mr. allen: i thank the gentleman from alabama for yielding. mr. speaker, individuals, families and businesses alike in georgia and across the nation agree that obamacare is wrong for americans. across my district hardworking georgians are trying to make ends meet, they've told me their health care premiums have skyrocketed under this law. many have learned the plan they liked and were promised they could keep have been canceled and they've been denied care and access to their doctors. in addition to hurting american families, obamacare's costly mandates burden small businesses. the bedrock of job creation and entrepreneurship. and have real consequences for their employees, facing lower hours and wages. the nonpartisan congressional budget office estimates that the law will lower the number of full-time equivalent workers by 2.5 million. the president's own center for medicare and medicaid services also found that an estimated 2/3 of small businesses will see their health care premiums go up under obamacare. i urge my colleagues to support h.r

mr. allen: thank you mr. chairman. i appreciate the opportunity here to come before you and talk about and support h.r. 5, the student success act. this is legislation to replace no child left behind, restore local control over education and empower parents and local education leaders to hold schools accountable for effectively teaching students. i spent last week in my district and i visited elementary and high schools. specifically schools that would be affected by the student success act. these schools were located in some of the most impoverished areas of my district. i listened in classrooms, held forums to hear from parents, and local education leaders and spoke to teachers and administrators about challenges they're facing. what i heard across the board was that the federal government and their compliance issues in the classroom are holding back our educators from effectively teaching our students. top-down education mandates have failed to help students and forced educators to waste valuable time and resources

mr. chairman. general allen, you're a retired u.s.arine four star general, you were the former commander of nato's international security assistance force and the u.s. forces in afghanistan for about a year and a half and then you became the senior adviser to the secretary of defense on middle east security. you commanded during that a period of time 150,000 u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan during a critical period of the war. i put that out there, one in recognition of the service, and, two, in also the framework of my question. what does enduring -- no enduring combat forces mean? >> well, i think obviously the nature of the contingency or the emergency or the potential conflict will give us the indications of what kinds of measures would need to be taken in the aggregate to deal with that emergency, to give the president the kinds of options that he needs in order to protect the lives of american citizens and americans interests in the homeland. each one of these emergencies will be different. each one will require a different a

. >> i'm afraid we have to go to mr. allen crayson from florida. >> oh, don't be afraid of that, please. i wouldn't want that on your conscious, mr. chairman. >> i thought i spoke for all of us. >> mr. secretary, the authorization for the use of military force offered by the white house in section 2-c the authority granted in subsection a does not authorize the use of the united states armed forces and in -- enduring ground combat operations. and what does enduring mean? >> it means iraq, afghanistan, long-term ground operations. you could define it in terms of months, not years. but it is -- it is a distinction between someone engaged in a rescue mission and going in on a -- on an advise and assist program to help people understand how to do fire control over one or two or three-day period or> >> two years? >> it -- again, you are talking about a combat troop and combat operations? >> offensive ground combat operations? >> we're not talking about -- we're not doing offensive ground combat operations. >> i'm asking whether thi

mr. chairman. general allen, thank you for your service to our country. >> thank you, sir. >> we are operating currently in the middle east under the 2001 aumf is that correct? >> that's correct. >> would it be a fair statement to say the one the president has sent to us is actually a limiting aumf compared to the 2001 authorization? >> it is specifically intended to deal with the threat of isil, that's correct. >> but it is limiting in the authority the president would have primarily by the interpretation of the enduring phrase is that correct? >> enduring in the expectation as he has describe described within it in the proposed legislation on the size and kind of forces that might be applied, measures and might be applied. that's correct. >> i voted for the 2001. it came on the heels of september 11 2,001 and was passed at a time when americans had flags on the windshield and front doors. and the patriotism in our country because of the terrible attack was at an all-time high, at least in my lifetime in my mem

. >> i'm afraid we have to go to mr. allen crayson from florida. >> oh, don't be afraid of that, please. i wouldn't want that on your conscious, mr. chairman. >> i thought i spoke for all of us. >> mr. secretary, the authorization for the use of military force offered by the white house in section 2-c, the authority granted in subsection a does not authorize the use of the united states armed forces and in enduring ground combat operations. and what does enduring mean? >> it means iraq, afghanistan, long-term ground operations. you could define it in terms of months, not years. but it is -- it is a distinction between someone engaged in a rescue mission and going in on a -- on an advise and assist program to help people understand how to do fire control over one or two or three-day period or something. there are all kinds of examples that could be defined. but enduring means we are not beginning the process or committing to a process of a long-term combat troop on-the-ground offensive engagement war. >> and three days is endur

. >> mr. allen grayson of florida. >> thank you. section 2 c. of the president strapped authorization for the use of military force reads as follows. the authority granted in subsection it does not operates the use of u.s. armed forces in enduring offensive ground combat operations. ambassador jeffrey what does and during main? >> my answer would be a somewhat sarcastic one whatever the executive at the time defines it as about the real problem with that. >> dr. brennan. >> i have problems with that also. not only because i don't know what it means. the lawyers are fighting over the meaning of this but more importantly if you are looking at committing forces for something that is vital or of important interest to the united states and you get in the middle middle of battle and all of a sudden are you on offense are you on defense? what happens if the neighbors cause problems? wars never end the way they were envisioned so that would be a terrible mistake to put in the aumf. >> dr. rand. >> it specifies an open and invest and specifies lack of cl

mr. graham allen.the prime minister. >> we should be proud that in magna carta our country established rules of justice and freedom that, 800 years later, still inform our constitution and resonate around the world. while there is a long-standing debate over the issue, there are no plans at present for a written constitution. >> i note that the prime minister says “at present.” does he agree, though, that there are unacceptably high levels of voter disengagement, with more people staying at home than voted labour and conservative at the last election? would he commit his government now, to preparing an all-party constitutional convention, in order to give every uk citizen a copy of our society's rulebook either a statute of the union or a written constitution, as a part of electors feeling once again that they own our democracy? >> obviously, i always look at the honorable gentleman's suggestions very carefully because he has made a number of sensible cross-party interventions over recent years, but i

mr. chairman. general allen, thank you for your service to the country. i followed you closely on tv the last couple of months and i think you've done a great job. we're operating under the 2001 amuf is that correct? >> that's correct. >> would it be fair to say that the one the president sent to us to consider is actually eliminating amuf compared to the 2001 authorization? >> it is specifically intended to deal with the threat of isil, that's correct >> but it's limiting in the authority of the president would have primarily by the interpretation of the enduring phrase, is that correct?? >> enduring and the expectation as he's described it in the proposed legislation on the size and kinds of forces that might be applied, measures that might be applied is that correct? >> i voted for the 2001 authorization when i was here. it came on the heels of 9/11/20109/11/ 9/11/2001. it was passed at a time when americans had flags raised and the patriotism in our country was at an all-time high, at least in my lifetime and my memory. are we going to have to wait fo

len len i thank the gentleman from -- mr. allen: i thank the gentleman from alabama for yielding. mr. speaker, individuals, families and businesses alike in georgia and across the nation agree that obamacare is wrong for americans. across my district hardworking georgians are trying to make ends meet, they've told me their health care premiums have skyrocketed under this law. many have learned the plan they liked and were promised they could keep have been canceled and they've been denied care and access to their doctors. in addition to hurting american families, obamacare's costly mandates burden small businesses. the bedrock of job creation and entrepreneurship. and have real consequences for their employees, facing lower hours and wages. the nonpartisan congressional budget office estimates that the law will lower the number of full-time equivalent workers by 2.5 million. the president's own center for medicare and medicaid services also found that an estimated 2/3 of small businesses will see their health care premiums go up under obamacare. i urge my colleagues to support h.r

mr. allen: i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker i rise today in strong support of this keystone x.l. pipeline approval act. you know i think on both sides, all we talk about is creating jobs. for six years this project has been studied, we hear that over and over again. you know, every environmental report has been favorable and in fact the president's own state department says that the construction of this pipeline will create tens of thousands of jobs. at a time when millions of americans are struggling, this is a project that's ready to go. as we said, we have pipelines stacked up ready to put in the ground. this keystone pipeline is not just an important -- is not just important to growing our economy, this project is critical to securing north american energy independence and reducing our dependence on foreign oil. congress has taken action with bipartisan so -- support and finally we will put this priority on the president's desk. i urge the president to listen to the american people who support this project and recon

the whole world was changing in front of mr. allen and he missed it. so what i would say to you and what i would encourage you to share with your friends is that faith is something you need to be strong with. don't be discourage, don't be defeated and don't give up. we've been here before and we can overcome the struggles again. thank you. >> thank you congressman palmer. appreciate it. congress radcliffe, we'll go down the line. >> thank you. appreciate the invitation to be here. let me echo what gary said. if it is a tremendous honor to be able to serve that with a bunch of folks, very quickly we've gotten to know our freshman conservative colleagues and i think that's the reason that gary had such a profound and inspiring message and i think that we all will with respect to the opportunities that lie ahead for conservative solutions. in my case, you know, i ran against a republican incumbent. a 34-year incumbent who was frankly very well liked. but you know the reason that i have the opportunity now to serve in congress was, as tim said notwithstand

mr. chairman. general allen, thank you for your service to the country. i followed you closely on tv the last couple of months and i think you've done a great job. we're operating under the 2001 amuf. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> would it be fair to say that the one the president sent to us to consider is actually eliminating amuf compared to the 2001 authorization? >> it is specifically intended to deal with the threat of isil, that's correct >> but it's limiting in the authority of the president would have primarily by the interpretation of the enduring phrase, is that correct? >> enduring and the expectation as he's described it in the proposed legislation on the size and kinds of forces that might be applied, measures that might be applied, is that correct? >> i voted for the 2001 authorization when i was here. it came on the heels of 9/11/2001. it was passed at a time when americans had flags raised and the patriotism in our country was at an all-time high, at least in my lifetime and my memory. are we going to have to wait for that type of

mr. allen: and i thank the gentleman from minnesota for yielding 30 seconds. madam chair, i think we all agree that no child left behind does not work. i think we all agree that every child deserves a good education. that's what h.r. 5 provides. it provides our teachers, our boards of education and our states the opportunity to innovate. isn't that what education is all about? that's what the business world is all about. that's why i'm supporting this bill and i yield the remainder of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from minnesota reserves. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. . mr. scott: i yield to the gentleman from california, mr. honda, 30 seconds. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. honda: i thank mr. scott for yielding. mr. speaker, i rise in support of the democratic substitute amendment to h.r. 5. this amendment builds on the lessons we learned from no child left behind particularly, vulnerable students without punishing teachers. it provides a wrap-around service promoting community schools an

mr. greenspan had to say. allensee it helps them and i certainly don't see that it helps the rest of the euro zone. it's just a matter of time before everyone recognizes that wording is the best strategy. trish: only a matter of time maybe before everyone recognizes that we were better off going this alone. either that, mark, or you say, ok, we will get everyone on board together and we will be in this together, which means we have one political unit. that is never really going to happen. i was speaking with german executives over the weekend and one of the concerns you hear regularly in germany from the sort of man on the street they point out that they don't like the idea of having to support the greek workers. in germany him a they say, much like the u.s., you have a lot of wealth transfer that will happen in a taxation system. and there are sections of germany that are less prosperous. however, the germans don't mind supporting other germans. but when you are talking about supporting the greeks or the italians o

i yield the remainder of my time to the gentleman from georgia, mr. allen. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for the remainder o ee.heemnd o mr. all: . r, rise in support of my friend mr. lou barletta's amendment to the student success act. last week i had the opportunity to spend time in our district and visit many of our local schools. the one thing that i heard from both administrators and teachers are the success of after school programs and the summer programs. let's face it, sometimes students just have a difficult time maybe during the school year. they get behind. and when they get behind, they tend to stay behind. these after school programs and these summer programs give our students the and opportunity to catch up and that's important. because as long as they are with and remain with the class and can be successful, they are successful students. that is why i'm proud to support mr. barletta's amendment providing that school districts report after school, before school or summer activities in their local education plan. i yield the remainder of

mr. hernandez. so it's not to the state's case. >> judge allen, i want to get this straight. hernandez's attorney left him in his car with his phone and hernandez's own phone and walked away why he called his accomplice. why would he do that? >> there are a lot of reasons. one, he knows that he is going to make a phone call that lawyer doesn't want to hear. the battery taken out of the phone, it could be that he knows or told by his lawyer that the police are able -- if they have a wiretap, are about to activate a phone if it's off and listen in on conversations unless you take the battery out. so he may have done it to make sure they couldn't listen in on the conversation he was about to have on the other phone with the person who is now a co-defendant. >> should he have an expectation of privacy in a public parking lot? >> you certainly can have an expectation of privacy any where. it may not be reasonable. >> a well-lit police parking lot, there is an expectation of privacy? >> yeah no i'm saying that can expect it all they want. what the law protects is a reasonable expec

mr. speaker, on friday, we lost our colleague, allen nunnelee who represented the first congressional district of mississippi. mr. thompson: yesterday congressman nunnelee he was memorialized. the entire mississippi delegation and 40 other members of congress attended. i ask that the house pause for a moment of silence in remembrance of congressman nunnelee. the speaker: members will rise and observe a moment of silence. the speaker: without objection five-minute voting will continue. the speaker: weather, the voting will continued. the clerk will report the title of the bill. caller: a bill to improve intergovernmental planning for and security incidents at domestic airports and for other purposes. the speaker: the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representates. any use of tedo coverage of the house proceedings

mr. chair, you mentioned about visiting prisons in cuba. when i did go, i did visit allen gross. and i visited him in prison. and i think that it was important that during the time that mr. gross was incarcerated that a number of members of congress went over and visited him and pushed for his release. and i think that that was a contributing factor. again, i just feel that you really can't change people and governments whom you refuse to engage with. and so increased engagement to me seems like it would be a contributing factor to improving the human rights situation on the island of cuba. and i look forward to the testimony from our witnesses today. thank you. >> i'd like to now yield to the chairwoman emeritus for the full committee on the foreign affairs. congresswoman ros lehtinen. >> thank you very much. if by visiting mr. gross you believe that you have been to a cuban jail, maybe these dissidents here could tell you what a cuban jail is really like. but we're thankful he is home. or we ask someone like mr. gusman who's in the audience today, he served 22 years in cuban pri

mr. chair you mentioned about visiting prisons in cuba. when i did go, i did visit allen gross. and i visited him in prison. and i think that it was important that during the time that mr. gross was incarcerated that a number of members of congress went over and visited him and pushed for his release. and i think that that was a contributing factor. again, i just feel that you really can't change people and governments whom you refuse to engage with. and so increased engagement to me seems like it would be a contributing factor to improving the human rights situation on the island of cuba. and i look forward to the testimony from our witnesses today. thank you. >> i'd like to now yield to the chairwoman emeritus for the full committee on the foreign affairs affairs. congresswoman ros lehtinen. >> thank you very much. if by visiting mr. gross you believe that you have been to a cuban jail, maybe this dissident dissidents here could tell you what a cuban jail is really like. but we're thankful he is home. or we ask someone like mr. gusman who's in the audience today, he served 22 y

allen west. congressman, what do you make of this? who's right? >> without a doubt mr.s looking at the current threat, existing threat which is this global jihaddism. i think what john kerry is trying to do is play a little apples and vegetables game. he's looking at the mass nation-state mobilized in world war 1, world war ii korea and vietnam. this is a dinner -- different battle field the 21st century. if you look at how isis is spread over the past year they are having affiliates in about 12 different countries. they're trying to dismiss this away and make us believe in a fantasy world and orwellian message that tries to make us dismiss it. >> when you look at the numbers, terror around the world in 2013 over 11,500 attacks. in 2014, the first nine months alone nearly 13,000 attacks and an estimated 31,000 people have been killed. that's why james clapper the deadliest year for global terrorism recorded. how wrong do you see it that the administration is using politics to play with our national security and security of mind-set? >> they are horribly wrong. one of th

mr. president. and it wasn't just faith leaders upset with the president's remarks. and joining us with more a columnist for the new york post and allenombs. and let's start with you. we saw a lot of republican reaction. as bobby put it run away christians aren't really a huge problem in today's day and age. >> i think it is taken way out of context and they are ignoring the point that people have done horrible things in the name of religion. i think people are on a high horse. >> you're on a high horse if you condemn radical islam. >> you are to try conflate the two and say this is what the religion is which is no different from people representing christ and bombs abortion clinics. that's not what christianity was, and that's the point. >> what's preposterous about what he said was that christians alive today in the united states do not have to be held responsibility for the behavior of christians 800, 500500, or 160 years ago. nobody today has to bear the high horse responsibility. >> we have to be a little shamed eaunz before they were alive and that is the out rage here is look, i don't have a horse in this race, i'm a jew. look,

allen harris. >> british prime minister david cameron answered questions from members of the house of commons concerning allegations that the swiss help avoid paying taxes. the prime minister also discussed the ukraine. mrs. 35 minutes. -- this is 35 minutes. questions to the prime minister. >> number one. >> thank you, mr. speaker. this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, and in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have further such meetings later today. >> does my right honorable friend recall the general election of 1983 a conservative landslide win which i and 100 others were elected for the first time. is he aware since that time unemployment was 3 million. today it is 2 million. the workforce with 24 million today it is 30 million. women in the workforce were 9 million today 14 million. does he agree that these comparisons coupled with -- [inaudible] in the form of a left wing opposition leader -- [shouting] >> i am very grateful to my right honorable friend. i wasn't a voter in 1983 but it is true that this government is cutting unemployment and it's also true that every labour government always puts up unemployment. what we can see in his own constituency is the

allen wastler at headquarters. we'll stay on this story for a moment. what does it take to amass mr. read's $8 million fortune?ot be as hard as you think if you live as long and as frugally as he did. chris hogan has crunched the numbers for us and joins us now. you'd have to invest $300 a month for 65 years to get to that amount. chris hogan is here. also with us is ronald read's attorney, lori rowell. she had been his attorney for six years and knew mr. read very well. lori joins us on the cnbc line. lori, both of you, thank you for being here. we want to begin by asking what kinds of investments you discovered and mr. read had made over the years. what did you find lori? >> well, i've got a whole list here. most of his investments we found in a safe deposit box. when we totaled them there were $8.6 million worth of investments in the safe deposit box. >> $6.8 million. what kinds of investments? what kinds of names did he have? >> he had at&t bank of america, cvs, deere, ge general motors things you would recognize. he only invested in what he knew and what paid dividends. that was important to him. >> and i

allen does acknowledge this is a generational fight. despite setbacks, this is an enemy that is not going away. george? >> thank you, martha. we're joined by the foreign minister of jordan. nasser judah. mr. minister, thank you for joining us this morning. do you have solid information about kayla muller, the american hostage? >> no, no solid information. we're hearing what you are hearing. our prayers are for her to be safe and sound and alive. but, we don't have information. i'm sure your services have that information. >> we just heard general allen say that the atrocity against your pilot by isis this week has galvanized the arab world, galvanized the fight against isis. we have seen jordan step up the fight. do you believe isis is on the run? >> they're on the run. they're not gone yet. certainly, the sustained air campaign of the last few months has degraded their capabilities on the ground. we know that. they still control vast territory. they still have access to syria's cash and funds. they have access to weaponry. they're not gone. as a threat yet. there is no doubt. we shall prevail. it won't be easy or quick. >> mr. minister, thank you for your time. >> thank you very much, m

allen. new mexico horse breeder and heir to an oil fortune. >> some guy says, would you rather have the ex mrs>> five months after meeting peggy, he asked her to marry him. >> biggest mistake of my life. >> within months of moving to his new mexico rafrmgnch, peggy was nosing her way into his horse business. pressing him to fire long-time employees and hire friend of hers. >> you know, she wanted her people to do the accounting and stuff. >> when he refused, allen says, the man magnet turned into a man eater. >> you know, it is like a man getting on you. pretty good sized woman. i looked in her eyes and, i mean, she's evil. she is evil. >> but if peggy thomas married well, she divorced even better. allen says he gave her money and an 80-foot houseboat just to go away. >> the divorce took way longer than the marriage did. >> looking back, mark allen says he should have known better. he said a few days before their wedding peggy let him in on a little secret. >> she said, she was accused of being involved in a murder and that her ex boyfriend killed a guy. said, but i didn't have nothing with it

funeral of allen nunnally a congressman who was elected from mississippi with me when i was first elected to congress. so you don't mind we'll have about a five-second moment of silence for mr. congressman nunnally's family. thank you. this conference is brought to you today not by senator tim scott. but truly by a concerted effort on behalf of a lot of people in this room and specifically my staff, and i'd like to give a shout-out to lizzie simmons, my -- [ applause ] lizzie over here. lizzie is my l.a. for education issues. she's passionate about the issue of school choice. she's worked tirelessly to make sure that today is as successful as it can be and so i would love to once again acknowledge lizzie lizzie, and you see a lot of my staff around, who have put a lot of time in to making sure that today is as significant as possible. i'd also like to thank my partners the american federation of children, along with the friedman foundation for educational choice. both have been major contributors to the efforts to make sure that they happen. we're going to hear from amazing speakers beyond this panel. we're going to also have senator lamar alexander. we're going to have edu